Parent to Parent: A Personal Journey of Raising Extraordinary Children by Teaching Essential Life Skills

Planned Parenthood isn't just about planning the right time in your life to have a child. It's also about making choices regarding how you want to raise your child by understanding yourself, discovering your own coaching abilities, and developing a conscious map that allows for a few side excursions along the way. It's about opening the drapes and letting the light in, taking deep breaths, and embracing all the sweet, inconvenient, laughable, stressful, playful ups and downs of this great adventure. At its heart, this book is a personal journey of raising children to be empowered, authentic and confident in themselves. It is about helping the parent engage in effective communication, teaching skills such as, leading your children to be responsible for their choices and actions and teaching them to trust their own intuitive signals along with, insights on breaking old parenting patterns. Parenting has changed dramatically since you were raised, and by the time you raise your children, it will dramatically change again. This is known as the Highway of Life and as such, there are times you will find the process... slow. Other times you will find the ride is going way too fast, and just want to put your foot on the brakes. Every child is different, every child has challenges they will test you with, and every experience can be the most profound moments of your life. This book is for parents of children of all ages, including grandparents, caregivers, teachers, coaches, babysitters - anyone who interacts with growing children, in any setting. They say it takes a village to raise a child. This book is for the village.... Janine is a single mother of two now adult children. After creating and holding various classes for parents of teens, single parents, and mentoring others, she obtained a certificate in Counselling Skills. Her personal parenting style and the many classes she has held on effective parenting resulted in this book. Her children and the participants in her many classes kept asking her to "write it down". With gentle wit and wisdom, she has done just that and Parent to Parent is the welcome result....